Middletown Bus Drivers Reach Agreement on Pay Equity
Middletown Supt. Robert K. Johnson and bus drivers agreed on a plan to add a half hour per day for cleaning and delays, with most drivers earning more overall under the revised scale. The policy cuts buses from 43 to 35, saving about 90,900 dollars, while the state funds five new buses through 1974 and routes will be assigned by seniority.
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Dorohy
Damble Journal
Middletown
Robert K. Johnson
Johnson
Board of Education
Middletown Schools Transportation System
Ing
Franklin Will Get Audit By THOM HALL FRANKLIN
An assistant auditor in Columbus said the Franklin school audit will likely begin in early September after delays. Supt. DeWitt Terry warned that without an audit schools could have closed by October, as employees would not be paid. The state legislature's actions on funding remain uncertain.
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Franklin
Columbus
The
Journal Today
Robert Milliser
Terry
City Manager Declares Water Rate Increase Legal
City Manager Dale Hessel says the Aug. 3 water rate increase is a legal ordinance and no rollback is expected. Billing for water used since the emergency law will begin Sept. 1, with rates in effect since Aug. 3, as Nixon wage price controls apply.
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Dale Hessel
Hessel
Nixon
Secretary of Treasury
John Connally
Committee Okays Benefits Increase in Ohio Senate
A bill to raise workmen's compensation for disabled and injured workers was reported out favorably by the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee after House passage. The plan increases maximum benefits by up to 33 percent, costing the state about $24 million.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
House
Prize Tow Away Campaign Targets Overdue Parking Fines
Police begin tow away actions for overdue tickets with a $33 car seized and 24 vehicles listed as most wanted. Lt. White announced next targets, noting two or more citations trigger impoundment, with nightly tow costs and storage fees added to owed amounts.
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Ptth
Leonard McFeeters
Norma McLain
Larry White
Bureau
White
Middle East Airlines posts 1970 profits near two million
Lebanon's Middle East Airlines earned about two million dollars in 1970. Company president Najib Alameddin said roughly three quarters of the gains went to higher insurance costs.
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Beirut, Lebanon
Lebanon
Middle East
Najib Alameddin
Trenton Chief Allows Charitable Bingo to Resume
Police Chief Hobart Adams announced that Trenton may resume bingo games run by charitable organizations after a two week ban. He said games can continue if sponsored by a charitable group and must avoid trouble, following a Hamilton ruling that charitable bingo is not gambling.
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Trenton
Hobart Adams
Adams
Lemon Township
Middletown
Hamilton
Society For Handicapped Children
Carlisle
Man Held On Fraud With Bill At Local McDonald’s
City detectives and the U S Secret Service investigated a doctored one dollar bill used to pay for a meal at McDonald’s on Verity Parkway. Sherman Wheeler 21 of Dayton was held on fraud and drug-related charges with a second man King Preston 31 of Indianapolis charged with drug possession. Officers found drug capsules in the suspects’ car after a patrol stop at Yankee Road and Verity Parkway.
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U. S. Secret Service
Sherman Wheeler
Dayton
City Ice
McDonald’s
Verity Parkway
Wheeler
King David Preston
Indianapolis
Jim Patton
McDonald Employe
Yankee Road
Ptl
Martin Wright
Douglas Hampton
Donnie Owens
Swindled Says Zoo Official Over Missing Lions
Louisville zoo official Dr. Ivo Poglayen says a man in a zebra-striped panel truck swindled him out of two lion cubs and one serval. The vendor promised three Canadian lynx and an otter from a Wisconsin zoo, which allegedly does not have them, leaving the Louisville collection short by three animals valued at $700.
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Louisville
Louisville, Zoo
Ivo Poglayen
Wisconsin
Ohio Teens Attend Seventh Teenage Institute on Drugs
About 275 Ohio high school juniors and seniors take part this week in the seventh state Teenage Institute on Alcohol and Drugs at Ohio Dominican College. The four day program is sponsored by state government and educational organizations.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Dominican College
Armco Sets Wage Increases Exempt From Freeze
Armco Steel Corp will pay its hourly workers the wage increases signed into contract yesterday while Ohio Bell Telephone Co workers await clarity. Armco vice president B C Haselton said the steel industry raises are believed exempt from the President's wage-price freeze.
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David Driver
Armco Steel Corp
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
B. C. Haselton
Armco
Armco union contract vote canceled amid wage freeze questions
Armco Steel Midlletown Works to lay off all summer help by week’s end as AEIF leaders argue over Nixon’s nine day wage freeze. The contract would boost pay 50 to 68 cents per hour, sparking disputes about ratification and how the freeze affects payouts and future retroactivity. Ohio Bell CWA members ratified if the freeze covers their increases, awaiting official clarification.
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Armco Steel Corp
Middletown
Jim Townsley
Armco
AEIF
Carmel Mathis
Nixon
Phillip Waits
Ohio Bell’s Communications Workers of America
CWA
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